I just heard a story about one of the crew members of O'connors crash landing in Canada...
Some time in the late 40's or early 50's this man lived in Newport RI, he was "old" at the time,
Apparently he had trained a parrot that lived with him to do a pre take off check, and rolling take off check list,
including squawking "Airspeed 110" "Flaps" ... and so on...